CVE-2024-13692

Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce <= 4.4.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference

2025-02-13 17:19
Tim Coen

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.4.6
Affected Plugin
Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce
Affected Version
<= 4.4.5
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-13692
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At a glance

CVE-2024-13692 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.4.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 4.4.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Tim Coen.

Vulnerability Overview

The Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce – Return Management System, RMA Exchange, Wallet And Cancel Order Features plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.5 via several functions due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite linked refund image attachments, overwrite refund request message, overwrite order messages, and read order messages of other users.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-285: Improper Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce <= 4.4.5 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.

A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce the fix is 4.4.6: builds <= 4.4.5 are affected, anything from 4.4.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.4.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce 4.4.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13692https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dafbf6e2-1160-4551-a987-5e94c9157ff2https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13692

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